Riot or Rebellion?: The Meaning of Violent Protest from the 1960s to George Floyd
Elizabeth Hinton takes us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Dr. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot is applied to events that are better understood as…